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Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:52:00 GMT
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That is what I was thinking. I was looking for a good multi-file find and
replace (got one) and came across a utility to set times and dates. I thought
it might be useful in some way to be able to do that.
Maybe set the time to reflect the update number, and the date for the date of
release.
-- Terry K --
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:53:28 GMT, "John VanZwieten"
<john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote:
> If it wouldn't be much trouble, that would be nice. It would help us part
> authors distinguish between the version released in the update and any version
> we have floating around our hard-drive. I just had a situation where I
> accidently unziped the parts voting file into my /parts directory instead of
> the parts update. If they all had the same date stamp it would have been easy
> to extract them.
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> Not a big deal, but if it's easy to do...
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> -John Van
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> Terry K wrote in message <37147609.10517285@lugnet.com>...
> > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:09:05 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) • wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:05:26 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wow. Lots of little things fixed. Big THANKS.
> > >
> > > You're welcome.
> > >
> > > Three things to be aware of in this release:
> > >
> > > 1. The VEC opens really slowly the first time you access it in any session
> > > of LDAO. This is because ldraw\parts is being checked to make sure there
> > > aren't any part-files newer than parts.lst. But there is an internal flag,
> > > so after checking one time (in a single run of LDAO), it doesn't check
> > > again.
> > >
> > > I hope in the next version, I will have a File | New Window option in the
> > > VEC, so additional VEC windows can be opened more quickly.
> > >
> > > 2. The 0 CATEGORY keyword is still not being referenced because the simple
> > > way to check it (read all part-files while loading the VEC) would take too
> > > long. I should have this implemented in the *next* version, which should
> > > be at least a .1 increment, instead of a .0.1 increment.
> > >
> > > 3. While there is a date-check on parts.lst vs. ldraw\parts\, there is not
> > > a check of ldraw\parts\ vs. ldraw\vec\. So if your VEC images are
> > > out-of-date, you will need to remember to MakeCatalog.
> > >
> > > Steve
> >
> > OK. Umm, a question. Would it serve any useful purpose if I syncronized all
> > the time/date stamps of the files in the updates?
> >
> > -- Terry K --
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>
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| Ooh, I like it! Would you do a separate date for the voting files? -John Van Terry K wrote in message <371537a8.6603130@lu...et.com>... (...) thought (...) version (...) easy (...) flag, (...) all (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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